[ExI] Low-calorie diet not linked with longevity

Brian Manning Delaney listsb at infinitefaculty.org
Wed Nov 21 16:35:21 UTC 2012


El 2012-08-30 17:24, BillK escribió:
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 3:05 PM, John Clark  wrote:
>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/low-calorie-diet-not-linked-with-longevity-in-monkeys-study-finds/2012/08/29/294ec174-f1fa-11e1-a612-3cfc842a6d89_story.html
>>
>
> I don't think it is all bad news.  [...]


To put it mildly.

Here we have an ex. of somewhat bad science, and lots of REALLY bad 
science reporting, having the potential to shorten the lives of lots of 
people.

Another perspective:

http://www.crsociety.org/science/nia_monkey_study

There are reasons not to be on CR, to be sure. The NIA study isn't one 
of them though.

-Brian





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